Latest announcements around Deprecations and changes from 2021 release wave 2 onwards

Important changes and deprecations around Power platform viz Power Apps, Power Automate and CE apps were announced by Microsoft recently starting 2021 release wave 2. You can read the article - here

Some are expected and few are surprises for me. So it’s me just jotting down some of them from my viewpoint.

Expected items list:

1. Legacy web client

2. IE 11 support for D365 and Power platform 

3. D365 for Outlook (addin)

4. D365 app for Windows

5. D365 for BlackBerry 

6. D365 Home url

Features:

1. Voice of the customer

2. Parature - knowledge base

3. Announcements

4. Mail merge

5. Relationship Roles

6. Task Flows

7. Process Dialogs

8. Company News timeline 

Model driven apps - Forms related:

1. Footer

2. Low density header

Canvas apps:

1. Rules

2. D365 connector 

Customizations:

1. Client APIs 

2. Legacy BPF attributes

3. Regional Discovery service

4. TimezoneRule entity and TimezoneDefinition entity (few attributes)

Developers:

1. Client APIs 

2. Silverlight (xap) web resource 

3. Office365 auth type

4. OrganizationServiceProxy class

Misc. 

1. D365 Sales Bot

2. AI builder Text classification models

3. AI builder Form processing and Object detection preview models